When I’m photographing, I see life. That’s what I deal with. I don’t have pictures in my head. i frame in terms of what i want to include and naturally, when I want to snap the shutter. And i don’t worry about how the pictures going to look, i let that take care of itself. We know too much about how pictures look and should look. And you do you get around making those pictures again and again. Its one modus operandi, to frame in terms of what you want to have in the picture not about how to make a nice picture. That anybody can do.

I don’t have to have any storytelling responsibility to what I’m photographing. I have a responsibility to describe well. In fact, my photographs are mute, they don’t have any narrative ability at all. A piece of time and space is well described but not what is happening…[photographs] do not tell stories, they show you what something looks like to a camera.

The nature of the photographic process, it is about failure. Most everything I do doesn’t quite make it. the failures can be intelligent. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Hpefully, you’re risking failing every time you make a frame.

It always fascinates me – it bolloxes my mind, I mean, when people talk about photographs in depth, and what not, you know, when all a photograph does is describe light on surface. That’s all there is. And that’s all we ever know about anybody. You know, what we see. I mean, I think we are our faces and whatever, you know? That’s all there is, is light on surface.

I am surprised that my prints sell. They’re not pretty, they’re not those kind of pictures that people easily put on their walls, they’re not that window onto a nice landscape or something. They aren’t.

I don’t have pictures in my head, you know. Look, I am stuck with my own psychology. With my own, uh, with me. So I’m sure that there’s some kind of thread, whatever, but I don’t have pictures in my head.